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Article Category: Research Article
| Online Publication Date: 05 Nov 2007
Book Reviews, Review Essay, Interesting Publications, Announcements, Calendar, Officer Reports
Book Reviews, Review Essay, Interesting Publications, Announcements, Calendar, Officer Reports
Page Range: 74 – 91
Most references in this essay are cited in the book under review. The following is a supplemental list:
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Brice, William R., 1989, Cornell Geology Through the Years, Cornell Univ. Press, Ithaca, NY, 230 p., $10.00.
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Cornelius, P.F.S., and Wells, J.W., 1988, Ellis and Solander's Zoophytes: six unpublished plates and other aspects: Bull. Brit. Museum Nat. History, Historical Series, v. 16, n. 1, p. 17-18.
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Cumming, William P., 1988, Mapping the North Carolina coast: Sixteenth century cartography and the Roanoke voyages, N.C. Dept. of Cult. Resources, Raleigh, NC, 87 p.
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Dexter, Ralph W., 1988, Agassiz's lectures on "The Order of Appearance of Animals on Earth": Bios, v. 58, n. 1/2.
Doskey, John, 1989, The European Journals of William Maclure, Mem. Amer. Philosophical Soc., Philadelphia, PA, v. 171, 815 p., $40.00.
Dundes, Alan, (ed), 1988, The Flood Myth, Univ. of California Press, Berkely, CA, 452 p.
Eagan, William E., 1989, The debate over the Canadian shield, 1880-1905: Isis, v. 80, p. 232-253.
Ehrenberg, Ralph E., 1989, The Earth revealed: aspects of geologic mapping, catalog for the Library of Congress exhibition, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, 37 p.
Fick, Karl E., 1986, Jahre Geographische Gesellschaft zu Frankfurt am Main, 1836-1986, in Festschrift für 150-Jahrfeier der Frankfurter, Geographischen Gesellschaft, 1836-1986, Frankfurter geograph. Hefte, Frankfurt am Main, Selbstverlag, p. 3-106.
Frängsmyr, Tore, 1985, The emergence of the glacial theory: A Scandinavian aspect: Organon, v. 21, p.231-235.
Frankel, Henry, 1988, From continental drift to plate tectonics: Nature, v. 335, p. 127-130.
Frondel, Clifford, 1988, Benjamin Franklin's purse and the early history of asbestos in the United States: Arch. Nat. Hist., v. 15, p. 281-287.
Gadsden, M., 1988, Kepler's atmospheric physics, in Schröder, W., ed., Past, present and future trends, in geophysical research, Bremen-Roennebeck: Interdivisional Commission on History of IAGA, p. 98-110.
Gould, Stephen J., Wonderful Life, Norton, 347 p., $19.95.
Gould, Stephen J., 1988, Genesis and geology: Natur. Hist., v. 97, n. 9, p. 12-20.
Grigson, Caroline, 1990, Missing links in the Piltdown fraud: New Scientist, v. 125, n. 1699, p. 55-58.
Inners, J.D., 1989, Colonel Henry Pleasants and the military geology of the Petersburg Mine-June-July, 1864: Pennsylvania Geology, v. 20, n. 5, p. 3-10.
Ito, Yushi, 1988, Hooke's cyclic theory of the earth in the context of 17th century England: Brit. Jour. Hist. Sci., v. 21, p. 295-314.
Iurkina, M.I., 1988, "Nachala" N'iutona i vozniknovenie sovremennoi teorri figury zemli, (Newton's Principia and the origin of the modern theory of the figure of the earth): Istor. Astron. Issled., v. 20, p. 56-63.
Johanson, Donald, and Shreeve, James, 1989, The discovery of a human ancestor, William Morrow and Company, New York, NY, 318 p., $21.95.
Jolly, David C., 1989, Maps in America in periodicals before 1800, David Jolly, Brookline, MA, 120 p.
Krut, I.V., Zabelin, I.M., and Fedosseev, I.A. 1988, Differentsiatsiia i integratsiia nauk o zemle v trudakh V.I. Vernadskogo (Differentiation and integration of the earth sciences in the works of Vernadskii): Vop. Ist. Est. Tekh., p. 45-54.
Laudan, Rachel, 1989, Individuals, species, and the development of mineralogy and geology, in Ruse, M., ed., What the Philosophy of Biology is, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands, p. 221-233.
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Lessing, Peter, 1989, The first survey publication: Mountain State Geologist, West Virginia Geological Surv., p. 22-24.
Maitte, Bernard, 1988, Expérimentation et conceptualisation: L'example des travaux d'Haüy sur les cristaux: Sci. Tech. Persp., v. 13, p. 109-130.
Manning, T.G., 1988, U.S. Coast Guard vs. Naval Hydrographic Office: a 19th century rivalry in science & politics, History of American Science & Technology, Univ. of Alabama Press, 202 p., $21.95.
Martí, Jordi, 1988, La diffusión de la glaciología en España (1849-1917): Llull, v. 11, p. 235-246.
Matthews, W.H., III, 1989, Pioneers of paleontology: Earth Science, v. 42, p. 17-19.
Matthews, W.H., III, 1989, Superstition to science: Primitive beliefs got paleontology off to a rough start, but early scholars helped the fog begin to clear: Earth Science, v. 42, p. 12-16.
McQuiston, F.W., 1986, Gold-the saga of the Empire Mine, 1850-1956, Blue Dolphin Press, Nevada City, CA, 95 p. (Available from Empire Mine Park Assoc., 10787 E. Empire St., Grass Valley, CA 95945)
Morrel, Jack, 1989, The legacy of William Smith: the case of John Phillips in the 1820's: Archives of Natural History, v. 16, p. 319-335.
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Newcomb, Sally, 1990, The problem of volcanic origins: Journal of Geological Education, v. 38, p. 123-131.
Newman, A., Chatt-Ramsey, R., 1988, A catalogue of the specimens figured in "The fossil flora" by John Lindley (1799-1865) and William Hutton (1797-1860) held by the Hancock Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne, Hancock Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne, 67 p.
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Oldroyd, David R., 1987, Punctuated equilibrium theory and time: a case study in problems of coherence in the measurement of geologic time (The ‘KBS’ tuff controversy and the dating of rocks in the Turkana Basin, Kenya), in Forge, J., ed., Measurement, Realism and Objectivity, D. Reidel Publishing Co., Dordrecht, Boston, Tokyo, p. 89-152.
Oldroyd, David R., 1989, Geological controversy in the seventeenth century: ‘Hooke vs Wallis’ and its aftermath, in Hunter, M., and Schaffer, S., eds., Robert Hooke: New Studies, The Boydell Press, Woodbridge & Wolfeboro, p. 207-233.
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Olson, R.S., 1989, The politics of earthquake prediction, Princeton Univ. Press, hardcover, 187 p., $19.95.
Price, David, 1989, John Woodward and a surviving British geological collection from the early 18th century: J. Hist. Collect., v. 1, p. 79-95.
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Schleucher, Kurt, 1988, Alexander von Humboldt, Stapp Verlag, Berlin, 167 p.
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Stafford, R.A., 1989, Scientist of the Empire, Sir Roderick Murchison, scientific exploration and Victorian imperialism, Cambridge Univ. Press, 25 p.
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Waiser, W.A., 1989, The field naturalist: John Macoun, the Geological Survey, and national science, Univ. of Toronto Press, Toronto, 253 p.
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Willis, Delta, 1989, Behind the scenes in the search for human origins, Viking, New York, NY, 352 p., $21.95.
Withey, Lynne, 1989, Voyages of discovery: Captain Cook and the exploration of the Pacific, Univ. of California Press, Berkely, CA, 512 p.
Wutzke, Ulrich, 1988, Der Forscher von der Friedrichsgracht: Leben und Leistung Alfred Wegeners, Brockhaus, Leipzig, 272 p.
Yaalon, D.H., 1989, Forerunners and founders of pedology as a science: Soil Science, v. 147, n. 3, p. 225-226.
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